John Breslin

My main research themes are in the following technology areas (software/hardware) and application domains:

• Data Science; Artificial Intelligence; Social Semantics; Social Media; Semantic Web
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Power and Energy; Sensors and Internet of Things
• Agricultural Technology; Smart Manufacturing; Health; Innovation and Entrepreneurship

According to SciVal Elsevier, in the Top 500 authors at the University of Galway over the period 2019 to 2025, I am ranked as follows:

• #1: Engineering, by Scholarly Output
• #3: Engineering, by Citations
• #2: Computer Science, by Scholarly Output
• #4: Computer Science, by Citations
• #11: All Subject Areas, by Scholarly Output
• #25: All Subject Areas, by Citations

According to Google Scholar, my h-index is 57 and I have over 13,000 citations. My citations have shown a steady increase per year.

Of my 350+ publications, I am the senior author on ~60% of these (defined as first or last author). My top-cited publications (over 375 citations) are:

• “Crowdsourcing, Citizen Sensing and Sensor Web Technologies for Public and Environmental Health Surveillance and Crisis Management” (BioMed Central International Journal of Health Geographics, cited by 638, third most-accessed paper in the journal)
• “Optimizing the AC Resistance of Multilayer Transformer Windings with Arbitrary Current Waveforms” (IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, cited by 501)
• “Big Data and Stream Processing Platforms for Industry 4.0: Requirements Mapping for a Predictive Maintenance Use Case” (Elsevier Journal of Manufacturing Systems, cited by 434)
• “The Social Semantic Web” (Springer, cited by 386)

I have collaborated with over 350 co-authors, including academic, government and industrial colleagues in organisations such as Bosch, Cisco Systems, Harvard Medical School, IBM, the US Government’s Department of Health and Human Services.

My research has been deployed in about 10 industry products, and my publications have been cited in patents granted to Cisco Systems, Google, IBM, Offerpop and SAP, and patent applications by HP and Siemens, amongst others.

“The Social Semantic Web” has been a recommended course book in modules at Anna University Chennai, Boğaziçi University, Institute of Technology Tallaght, National Institute of Technology Patna, Technical University of Munich, University of Bamberg, University of Vigo, Utrecht Graduate School of Humanities. It has been downloaded over 15,000 times.

Over my years of teaching, I have granted nearly 30,000 ECTS, i.e., ECTS × students, totalled over all time, not including undergraduate projects supervised. I have an average annual taught ECTS turnover of over 2,100 ECTS, i.e., ECTS × students, in recent years.

In my modules, I have taught 8,691 students on modules. In total, I have taught 5,106 unique students (i.e., taking into account people taught on multiple modules).

I have had responsibility for assessing and examining a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules since 2000 as listed below.

Master’s in Engineering

• EE5103 Digital Control Systems for Automation & Robotics (2023 - Present)
• EE5120 Digital Control Systems (2011 - 2022)
• EE6102 Power Systems (2018 - Present)

Bachelor's in Engineering

• EE4103 Digital Control Systems for Automation & Robotics (2023 - Present)
• EE4100 Digital Control Systems (2011 - 2022)
• EE450 Power Systems (2018 - Present)
• EE231 Electronic Instrumentation & Sensors (2013 - 2016, 2018 - Present)
• EE219 Analogue Systems Design I (2013 - 2016)
• EI140 / CE141 Fundamentals of Engineering (2012 - 2016, 2018 - Present)
• EE131 Fundamentals of Electrical & Electronic Engineering II (2011 - 2012)
• EE130 Fundamentals of Electrical & Electronic Engineering I (2010 - 2012)
• EE206.ii Microprocessor Systems Engineering II (2009 - 2013)
• EE211 Analogue Systems Design I (2008 - 2013)
• EE109 Fundamentals of Electronic Engineering (2008 - 2010)
• EE211 / EE322 Analogue Systems Design I (2003 - 2004)
• EE207 Digital Systems I (2003 - 2004)
• EE308 Signals & Communications (2000 - 2004)
• EE321 Analogue Systems Design II (2000 - 2003)

Bachelor's in Computer Science & Information Technology

• EE130 Fundamentals of Electrical & Electronic Engineering I (2010 - 2016, 2018 - Present)
• CT108 Next Generation Technologies I: Semantic Web (2005 - 2007)
• CT433.iii Advanced Studies in IT: Semantic Web & Web Services (2004 - 2006)

Postgraduate Diploma/Master’s in TechInnovation

• GS5105 TechInnovate I: Needs Finding to Concept Generation (2016 - 2018, 2019 - 2020)
• GS5106 TechInnovate II: Concept Development & Implementation (2016 - 2018)

Master’s in Digital Media

• DM110 Emerging Web Media (2006 - 2008)